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Balance of Power,
development of doctrine of, 220.
Bank, National,
Hamilton's policy in creating, 39;
reasons for hostility of Jacksonian Democrats to, 57;
view of, held by Republicans, 57-58;
campaign of Jackson and his followers against, 58-59;
Whigs' failure in attempt to re-charter, 68.
Bank examiners,
difference between Federal commissions and, 363-364.
Birth-rate,
lowering of, in France, 245.
Bismarck, Otto von, 8, 242, 256;
personal career of, 247;
unification of Germany by, 247-249;
course of, as Imperial Chancellor, 249 ff.;
inheritance left to German Empire by, in the way of overbearing
attitude to domestic and foreign opponents, 251;
provoking of Germany's two wars by, was justifiable, 256;
quoted on what constitutes the real nation, 265-266.
"Boss,"
the coming of the, 118-121;
character and position of the, 122;
dealings of, with big corporations, 122-124;
his specialized leadership fills a real and permanent need, 124-125;
is the unofficial ruler of his community, 125;
is the logical outcome of a certain conception of the democratic
state, 148-149;
method proposed for destroying the, 338-341;
Australian ballot and system of direct primaries have no injurious
effect on, 341-343.
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